THE FAMILY ROOM Plays the Berlind Theater, 7/23 & 7/24
by BWW News Desk - July 24, 2011 American Opera Projects (AOP) and Opera New Jersey reunite sopranos Lauren Flanigan and Catherine Malfitano in The Family Room, a new one-act opera written especially for them by composer Thomas Pasatieri (The Seagull ) with an original libretto by Daphne Malfitano. The dark drama tells the story of...
BURNT PART BOYS Cast Album Gets 12/6 Release
by BWW News Desk - December 06, 2011 After a run in Spring 2010 as a co-production between Playwrights Horizons (Artistic Director, Tim Sanford; Managing Director, Leslie Marcus) and Vineyard Theatre (Artistic Director, Douglas Aibel; Executive Director, Jennifer Garvey-Blackwell), the critically-acclaimed score of THE BURNT PART BOYS ...
Danielle Tarento Presents THE PITCHFORK DISNEY and SHIVERED AT SOUTHWARK PLAYHOUSE
by Erik Smith - November 17, 2011 Award-winning playwright, screenwriter and artist Philip Ridley will be celebrated in Spring 2012 with a 21st anniversary revival of his electrifying debut play The Pitchfork Disney, and the world premiere of his new play Shivered....
Brooklyn Performance Added For AOP Monodramas May 12
by BWW News Desk - May 12, 2011 Two new operatic monodramas featuring two iconic mothers will receive their first public concert readings a day after Mother's Day. ...
Theo Bleckmann and ACME to Perform Phil Kline's OUT COLD/ZIPPO SONGS at BAM, 10/25-27
by BWW News Desk - October 04, 2012 Thursday, October 25 through Saturday, October 27 at 7:30 PM, vocalist Theo Bleckmann and the American Contemporary Music Ensemble (ACME) will perform OUT COLD/ZIPPO SONGS- a double-bill of dramatic song cycles with music and lyrics by Phil Kline (Unsilent Night, John the Revelator) - presented as p...
AOP Presents HENRY'S WIFE, EICHMANN
by Gabrielle Sierra - February 25, 2011 AMERICAN OPERA PROJECTS (AOP) will present concert performances of scenes from two operas-in-development - Henry's Wife, by composer Randall Eng (pictured) and librettist Alexis Bernier, and Eichmann in Jerusalem, by composer Mohammed Fairouz and librettist David Shapiro....
7th Annual ECNY Awards Nominees Announced
by Gabrielle Sierra - February 10, 2011 The ECNY Awards, New York's original comedy awards, are honored to announce the nominees for the 7th Annual Awards. Voting is now open to the general public at ECNYawards.com, and winners will be announced at the 7th Annual ECNY Awards ceremony, held March 14, 2011, at 8:30PM; at 92Y Tribeca, 200 Hu...
American Opera Projects To Present Scenes from Numinous City 11/16
by Gabrielle Sierra - October 18, 2011 On Wednesday, November 16, at 7:00pm, American Opera Projects, in association with the Rubin Museum of Art, will present scenes from Numinous City, a new opera by British composer Pete M. Wyer based on the extraordinary true story of Tibetan nun Ngawang Sangdrol....
Brooklyn Performance Added For AOP Monodramas May 12
by Gabrielle Sierra - April 19, 2011 Two new operatic monodramas featuring two iconic mothers will receive their first public concert readings a day after Mother's Day. ...
OUR BASIC NATURE Plays The Greene Space At WNYC
by Gabrielle Sierra - November 09, 2010 AMERICAN OPERA PROJECTS (AOP) will present a workshop of the new one-act opera Our Basic Nature, based on the extraordinary true story of a psychotherapist who for 12 years raised a chimpanzee named Lucy as his own daughter....
Opera Grows in Brooklyn Comes To Galapagos 9/18
by Gabrielle Sierra - August 23, 2011 American Opera Projects and Opera on Tap, in association with the Brooklyn Book Festival, present Opera Grows in BOOKlyn! Music based on the works of contemporary Brooklyn writers...
Opera Grows in Brooklyn Comes To Galapagos 9/18
by Gabrielle Sierra - August 23, 2011 American Opera Projects and Opera on Tap, in association with the Brooklyn Book Festival, present Opera Grows in BOOKlyn! Music based on the works of contemporary Brooklyn writers...
Danielle Tarento Presents The Pitchfork Disney
by BWW News Desk - January 25, 2012 Nathan Stewart-Jarrett, currently on television screens as Curtis Donovan in Channel 4's Misfits, will play Cosmo Disney in the 21st anniversary revival of Philip Ridley's electrifying debut play The Pitchfork Disney....
HEART OF DARKNESS Opera Plays Stages From London To Brooklyn
by Gabrielle Sierra - October 28, 2011 In Joseph Conrad's 1902 literary masterpiece Heart of Darkness, Marlow, a riverboat captain, voyages from London into the African Congo at the height of European colonialism....
Will Eno Continues Ibsen Play as Opera at NYC Theatre Club 5/9
by Gabrielle Sierra - April 05, 2011 Two new operatic monodramas featuring two iconic mothers will receive their first public concert readings a day after Mother's Day....
Opera Grows in Brooklyn Comes To Galapagos 9/18
by BWW News Desk - September 18, 2011 American Opera Projects and Opera on Tap, in association with the Brooklyn Book Festival, present Opera Grows in BOOKlyn! Music based on the works of contemporary Brooklyn writers...
Conroy, Crossley & More Complete Casting For Sheffield Crucible's ME AND MY GIRL
by Gabrielle Sierra - October 29, 2010 Sheffield Crucible is to stage its first musical since its £15 million redevelopment with a revival of Me and My Girl. ...
American Opera Projects Hosts A Tribute To NY Marriage Equality 8/18
by Gabrielle Sierra - August 11, 2011 2011 has already become a defining year in the history of civil rights movements, with the long-awaited legalization of same-sex marriage in New York State....
THE FAMILY ROOM Plays the Berlind Theater, 7/23 & 7/24
by BWW News Desk - July 23, 2011 American Opera Projects (AOP) and Opera New Jersey reunite sopranos Lauren Flanigan and Catherine Malfitano in The Family Room, a new one-act opera written especially for them by composer Thomas Pasatieri (The Seagull ) with an original libretto by Daphne Malfitano. The dark drama tells the story of...
7th Annual ECNY Awards Ceremony Held 3/14
by BWW News Desk - March 14, 2011 The ECNY Awards, New York's original comedy awards, are honored to announce the nominees for the 7th Annual Awards. Voting is now open to the general public at ECNYawards.com, and winners will be announced at the 7th Annual ECNY Awards ceremony, held March 14, 2011, at 8:30PM; at 92Y Tribeca, 200 Hu...
BALD Theatre Premieres THE BURNT PART BOYS, 8/31-9/8
by BWW News Desk - August 05, 2012 the BALD theatre company presents the Pittsburgh premiere of The Burn Part Boys, directed by Justin Zeno with music direction by Nancy Gordon Galluzzo. Starring John-Michael Breen, Matt Augustyniak, Joseph Serafini, Logan Williams, Amanda Hawkins, Chad Elder, Corey Nile Wingard, Brian Barrett and Ju...
African American Opera Colors Galapagos June 12
by Gabrielle Sierra - May 18, 2011 Two Brooklyn opera companies, AMERICAN OPERA PROJECTS (AOP) and OPERA ON TAP (OOT), will present Opera Grows in Brooklyn: Opera of Color, featuring a collection of contemporary opera and song from African Americans, in the next installment of Opera Grows in Brooklyn....
Joe's Pub Announces Upcoming Events
by Kelsey Denette - January 09, 2012 Joe's Pub has announced the following upcoming events....
American Opera Projects Presents Kamran Ince's Judgment of Midas 1/12
by Gabrielle Sierra - December 15, 2010 AMERICAN OPERA PROJECTS (AOP) is excited to collaborate with acclaimed Turkish-American Composer Kamran Ince on his latest work and operatic 'first', Judgment of Midas....
American Opera Projects Receives NEA Funding for Two Operas
by Kelsey Denette - January 31, 2012 American Opera Projects (AOP) announces that composer Huang Ruo's The Weeping Camel and composer Gregory Spears's Paul's Case are awarded $10,000 each from the National Endowment of the Arts's ART WORKS initiative to support developmental workshop productions with AOP and producing partners. Both op... |